Differences between version 17 and predecessor to the previous major change of EximSmtpAuth.
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| Newer page: | version 17 | Last edited on Thursday, January 26, 2006 11:28:15 am | by NickJohnson | Revert |
| Older page: | version 16 | Last edited on Thursday, January 26, 2006 11:07:21 am | by DanielLawson | Revert |
@@ -29,19 +29,25 @@
These are both plain text drivers, you may wish to investigate using other drivers. Note, this won't work if your login or password contain :'s
__NOTE__: the above example refers to $2 and $3 for PLAIN auth, and $1 and $2 for LOGIN auth. This is correct! It is the only way PLAIN auth will work. If you find PLAIN auth isn't working, check that you are using $2 and $3 for the user and secret tokens, and not $1 and $2
-You
will also need to make sure you have
+In Exim 3, you
will also need to make sure you have
host_auth_accept_relay = *
(which is the default in debian)
+
+this is accomplished in Exim 4 with
+ host_auth_accept_relay = *
+in the main section of the config file, which is there by default in FreeBSD.
and you will need to add
exim_user = root
since you can't check passwords unless you are root, so you need to run exim as root. Pity.
Alternatively you can use shadow group to enable PAM without root priviliges
exim_user = mail
exim_group = shadow
+
+!!! Testing
Now restart exim and type
exim -bh localhost
try the commands
